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A Glorious Chess City_

Haaretz - Israel News reports on a plan that sounds just a tad too ambitious:

The president of Russia's Kalmykia region plans to build an international chess city in Dubai with investments of around $2.6 billion, a joint statement said yesterday.

Kalmykia's President Kirsan Ilyumzhinov and chief executive of Dubai Projects, Sulaiman al-Fahim, said the city would include 32 buildings shaped like chess pieces and cover an estimated area of 64,000 square meters.

"Dubai will play host to over 60 million amateur and professional chess followers from around the globe annually.